The Legal arm of government, particularly at the Federal level, has forever been viewed as a stage for political muscle-flexing in Nigeria. The direction of this thought has changed over the course of the years as broad decay set into the political framework at large and the Legal executive specifically.

In the First Republic, the North felt that the West utilized its pre-eminent position in the Legal executive to challenge its political authority through its plethora of attorneys and judges, particularly the latter. They massively enlisted their children to study law, with the essential expectation of getting them appointed as judges.

It was no mishap that somewhere in the range of 1987 and 2016, every one of the eight Chief Justices of Nigeria (CJN), were from the North, with seven of them being Muslims. The dominance ended with the emergence of Justice Walter Onnoghen, and simply because President Muhammadu Buhari was not available to proceed with the regional pattern.

The new style presently is that senior members from the Legal executive, resigned and serving Justices for the nation's highest court and power players in the Legal executive hustle their children, wards and relations into the Bench. The arising image is that of a future Federal Legal executive mainly populated by the children and close relations of serving and retired senior members of the bench.

In an absurd and audacious display of maltreatment of honor, out of the rundown of 33 names backed by former President Muhammadu Buhari for appointment as judges in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), 22 were children and relatives of strong serving and retired members of the National Judicial Council (NJC), and other senior Benchers.

As per Open Bar Initiative, a legal sector backing bunch, a significant number of these appointments disregarded Section 255 of the 1999 Constitution which recommends, among others, at least 10 years as a legal practitioner for eligibility for appointment as an adjudicator of the FCT High Court.

As per the group: "he suggestion that the Judicial Service in Nigeria is an inheritance transmitted from parents to children is not supported by the Constitution or any other instrument under Nigerian law. This is an abuse of the Constitution by those who…nominate judges for appointment".

This misuse is connected to the arising force of the Legal executive in our elections. Politicians and some election officials, in the wake of trading our votes, move toward the Legal executive to decide the winners. The power that has a place with the people has been slowly moved to the Legal executive, and judges who serve on electoral tribunals are strategically set up to employ influence and amass wealth.

The National Assembly should capture this crawling risk to our majority rules system and justice administration through fitting legislative intervention.